If you are thinking of joining the 21st century and want to create a design statement in your home, why not get rid of your old fashioned TV stand or table and mount your television on the wall using a TV bracket. If you use a TV wall bracket you can enhance your viewing experience [...]
Sharp has announced that it will be launching two new Blu-ray recorders onto the Japanese market. Both players will also allow the playing of Blu-ray 3D discs as well.
The BD-HDW700 and BD-HDW79 will offer 3D playback when used in conjunction with a 3D TV. They will also offer a range of functions to permit 3D [...]
It is estimated that glasses-free 3D LCD TVs will be on the market by 2015, according to research carried out in Taiwan.
The Industrial Technology Research Institute carried out the study after displaying a 42-inch version of just such a device. They say that they have made glasses-free 3D TVs up to 65 inches in [...]
The final stage when calibrating an HD TV is to get the hue and tint right. This is quite difficult, but is basically something you can judge with your own eye. Get an image on screen featuring a lot of blue and green and then after that an image with lots of red and orange. [...]
Having fitted the HDTV on a TV wall bracket and adjusted the brightness, you next move onto the contrast. You should raise it until white is as bright as it can be without leeching into adjacent areas of darker colour.
Sharpness is trickier to deal with. It is worth finding an image featuring text as this [...]
When calibrating the picture on your HD TV, the first thing to do is to trawl through all the various menus looking for anything that advertises itself as an ‘enhancement’. These are usually artificial filters and tweaks that will have a negative impact on a properly set up TV picture, so switch them off before [...]
To truly do justice with your HD TV, you will probably need to bring both colour and contrast down from the factory settings. With sharpness honed, the detail will leap at you, particularly on Blu-rays and HDTV broadcasts.
It is important to make your adjustments with the room environment as it is when you are watching [...]
Your new HD TV is on a TV wall mount and the default picture settings are not right. The colour and contrast are too high because this is what makes the picture stand out in the shop. It’s time to get tweaking.
You will actually need different settings for films, games and for watching sport. You [...]
We have already recommended that you get a TV wall mount to get the most of your new HD TV. Having done this and set your TV on the wall, you now need to calibrate it.
The key thing to remember is that manufacturers’ defaults are not necessarily the best settings for you. In fact, it [...]
If you are thinking of buying a new flat screen television, why not have a look at the new LED televisions that are quickly catching up in sales with LCD and plasma. LED televisions use a new type of technology to backlight the screen. In reality LED televisions use the same pixel configuration as an [...]
